The Quaker Consortium is an arrangement among three liberal arts colleges,

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

, Haverford College, and Swarthmore College, and one

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, the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

, all located in the greater

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area. The arrangement allows for their students to enroll in courses at the other schools of the Consortium. The name stems from the historic influence of

Quakers Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abil ...

in the Philadelphia region and in the founding and administration of the Consortium's member schools. The three liberal arts colleges, members of the Tri-College Consortium, facilitate transportation among their respective campuses with free shuttle services. No such service is offered between the liberal arts colleges and Penn. Students wishing to get to Penn must drive or take the

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Paoli/Thorndale Line The Paoli/Thorndale Line, or R5 commonly known as the Main Line, is a SEPTA Regional Rail service running from Center City Philadelphia through Montgomery County and Delaware County to Thorndale in Chester County. It operates along the far eas ...

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trains to Philadelphia. Haverford and Bryn Mawr students can also take the

Norristown High Speed Line The Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL), also called the Purple Line, the P&W, or Route 100,) is a interurban light rapid transit line operated by SEPTA, running between the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby and the Norristown Tr ...

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in Upper Darby where they transfer to SEPTA's

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to reach Penn. Some programs at the liberal arts colleges subsidize these SEPTA fares. Historically, students from the three liberal arts colleges have taken advantage of the consortium (for Penn's vast curricular offerings) much more frequently than Penn undergraduates. In 2006, for example, around 150 Bryn Mawr College students took classes at Penn, while only 5 Penn students took classes at the three liberal arts colleges.The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Sebastien Angel , Capitalizing on the consortium
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External links

Information on Quaker Consortium for Penn studentsInformation on "Tri-Co" transportationShared course directory for Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and SwarthmoreCourse directory for Penn

References

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